Episode VII will be J.J. Abrams‘ first time directing a Star Wars movie, but technically it won’t be his first time working with a Star Wars character. The self-admitted Star Wars fanboy slipped an R2-D2 cameo into 2009’s Star Trek, and we’ve now learned that the droid made a return appearance in Star Trek Into Darkness. Hit the jump to see his blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo.

Reader Rafael Oca passed along this screen shot, from somewhere around the one hour, 17-minute mark. After the Vengeance fires on the Enterprise while the ships are in warp, poor R2 gets sucked out of the ship with other members of the crew.

If you failed to notice R2 in Star Trek Into Darkness, don’t feel bad. As you can see in the screencap below, he appears only briefly in the background.